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As the Right Wing celebrates #94YearsofRSS, here's a quick look into what the organisation really stands for.

1. Throughout India's freedom struggle, the RSS was subservient to the British, with its leadership prohibiting participation in mass movements.
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According to the biography of Hedgewar, the founder of the RSS, when Gandhi launched the Salt Satyagraha in 1930, he “sent information everywhere that the Sangh will not participate in the Satyagraha.'

A year-and-a-half after the Quit India movement, the Bombay govt of the British Raj noted with satisfaction, that “the Sangh has scrupulously kept itself within the law, and in particular, has refrained from taking part in the disturbances that broke out in August 1942.”

Cadres of the RSS were frustrated by their leaders who were holding them back from participating in the movement.

Golwalkar himself pointed out that many of the Sangh's volunteers were disgusted by its inactivity.

There was a curious reason for not participating in the freedom struggle.

Months before the British-made famine killed 3 million in Bengal, Golwalkar said that "the Sangh does not want to blame anybody else for the present degraded state of the society."
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When a man came to exhort shakhas to throw out the British, Golwalkar opined that, "The evil with today’s political sentimentalism is that its basis is reaction, sorrow and anger, and opposition to the victors forgetting friendliness.”

Notes from MK Gandhi's secretary show that before RSS member Nathuram Godse shot him point blank, “Members of the RSS at some places had been instructed beforehand to tune in to their radio sets on the fateful Friday for the ‘good news’.

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“After the news, sweets were distributed in RSS circles at several places”, according to a letter received by Sardar Patel.

The organisation was banned, with Sardar Patel saying that their speeches were 'full of communal poison'.

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